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Law on trial : an unlikely insider reckons with our legal system / Shaun Ossei-Owusu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ossei-Owusu, Shaun, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discrimination in justice administration--United States.
- Discrimination in justice administration.
- Equality before the law--United States.
- Equality before the law.
- Due process of law--United States.
- Due process of law.
- Equity--United States.
- Equity.
- Fairness.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (422 pages.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2026.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Notes from the margins
- Part I: Law school
- Legal bootcamp
- Assembly #1 : untold tales in contract, tort and property law
- Manufactured consent and contractual inequality
- Injurious matters : tort law and the narrow construction of harm
- Property, ownership, and injustice
- Assembly #2 : The written and unwritten rules in criminal law, constitutional law, and civil procedure
- Textbook injustice : criminal law and the unspoken politics of punishment
- The ultimate con job? : constitutional law and the effacement of history and politics
- Civil procedure and the architecture of inequality
- Part II: Government lawyering : preliminary hearing
- The power to choose : prosecutors and the criminal justice machinery
- Municipal matters : the hidden civil power of county counsel and city hall attorneys
- Part III: Big law : a sober view of big law
- Transactional violence : healthcare and the afterlives of mergers and acquisitions
- Environmental degradation in the regulatory wild west
- Litigating labor : class action killers, wage theft accomplices, and union busters
- Part IV: Public interest lawyering
- Intake : Public disservice and the paradox of good intentions
- How we got here : the political and economic straightjacketing of public interest law
- Power, prejudice, and paternalism in the pink ghetto
- High-level impact litigation and inequality
- Conclusion: For the record.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-407) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781324091271 (electronic bk.)
- 1324091274 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 40033247283
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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